Easily create hard chisel Illustrator font?
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- juliushibert
Can anyone recommend a simple, preferably live editable, way of creating a graphic hard chiseled font like the link below.
I've tried using Photoshop layer effects and Live Tracing them, or using Illustrator Extrude effect but neither seem to do a good job of creating clean lines that are editable.
Any suggestions?
- fyoucher10
I thought this was going to be an abs thread
- detritus1
Nope, other than just buying a pre-made font, I can't.
I might've suggested creating a one stroke font and somehow filtering that, extruding and or outlining, or whatever, but having tried to make single stroke fonts beforehand (for my laser-cutting thing), I've never managed to get them to work.
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How much did you fart around with the Advanced ImageTrace settings? Illy CC seems more powerful than earlier versions, when pushing the number of paths and corners.
You're embedding the source Photoshop file as a SmartObject?
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Also - are you trying to do it in colour, or just B&W? The former would seem markedly more difficult to me.
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An interesting problem! :)
- detritus0
Also - did you try upsizing your source artwork, making it x times as big as you want it, so that ImageTrace has more data (/less complexity) to work with when converting to vector?
I do quite a lot of 'geometric' ImageTracing and have found that working with larger bitmap sources often takes away some of the more irksome detail mistranslations.. don't know if that's the root of your problem there though!
- face_melter0
How about the 3D engine in Photoshop - assuming you have CC or a bit earlier, of course.
You can add text directly and add various extrude and bevel effects on the fly.
- interesting - does that give a cleaner end bitmap than just using normal layer filters?detritus
- Not sure - I have never used it - no need tbh. I'm running a wee test now...face_melter
- face_melter0
That was with a little bit of mucking around to see how it works. it actually renders the image instead of just doing a screencap of the objects. There are a few quality setting in Preferences.
Not exactly the effect you are after - the extrusion/bevel options are limited - but seeing as it's CC there might be some user-created settings floating around. Along with a light source, it does have a robust camera setup so it could be possible to have a perfectly flat frontal view without and perspective.
Never used the 3D in Ps before, controls like a dog but it's a curious thing which I may look into further.
- Actually - I tell a lie. It does do that sharp angle bevel you are after - it's a one of the extra settings under a tiny fucking button.face_melter
- monospaced0
What if you used the extrude and bevel, and set the bevel to the size that makes each bevel meet in the middle? That would, theoretically, give you someting close to what you want. Thing is, it requires the stroke weights to be even throughout, no matter what.
- face_melter0
I jacked up the settings as a test, which may have caused the bucking and distrotion. Not the most elegant solution, truth be told. But, you learn something new every day.
- uan0
- http://goo.gl/d2xjIuan
- erm?detritus
- well, it gives you the desired control over vertex and stuff.uan